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（英会話リスニングスクリプト）
The relatively modern-day concept of the
address has finally come to Murles, a tiny village of 230
nestled in hilly scrubland in southern France.
For 1000 years, the isolated village has
avoided numbering its houses or giving names to its many
tiny lanes which are towered over by an 11th century chateau.
Ignored by real-estate types.
On the lookout for picturesque property
across sunny southern France, the villagers used to rejoice
in their isolation and anonymity.
But the French administration, irritated
by lost letters and meandering mail has finally caught up
with the village and insists on dragging into the 21st century.
The local postman says he has no trouble
delivering the mail as he knew each and every inhabitant
in the old stone houses.
So long as everyone knew everyone else there
was no need to have addresses.
But after 10 centuries it is proving no
easy task to name the streets and so the mayor has placed
the problem in the hands of the locals asking each and every
villager for written suggestions.
Some, after studying the history of the
village have proposed names based on local wine varieties
and others famous villagers of the past.
Younger villagers have suggested names of
favourite sporting stars or even pop singers or movie stars.
The village may take another 10 centuries
to resolve this most perplexing matter!
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