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1. Various of Damian Lewis driving sheep across Southwark Bridge
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Damian Lewis, actor:
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"I’m down here on this eccentric, very British day, honoring an old tradition where freemen of the city of London are able to drive their sheep toll-free, free of charge, across the bridge – London Bridge – as it was in the day into the city of London in order to sell their produce."
3. Above shot of sheep drive
4. Wide of Emmanuel Cohen looking at sheep
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Cohen, Master of the Worshipful company of Woolmen:
"Right, the reason we actually have the sheep drive here and basically we take sheep over the bridge because I am a freeman of the city of London. And being a freeman was the equivalent of the very first passport and you could go in and out of the walls of the city, you could travel around England and you wouldn’t be captured and become a serf, almost an indentured slave. So what we have is one of the rights is to take your sheep over the river free of toll to market. So we celebrate that today."
6. Wide of the river Thames from Southwark Bridge with St Paul’s Cathedral in the background
7. Wide of the modern City of London and skyscrapers
8. Sheep being walked across the Southwark Bridge
9. Close of sheep sniffing the camera
STORYLINE:
Actor Damian Lewis drove a flock of sheep across the River Thames on Sunday in homage to a centuries-old tradition.
Lewis is among thousands of people granted the honorary title of Freeman of the City of London, which in medieval times came with the right to bring livestock across the river to market without paying tolls.
More than 1,000 freemen exercised that right on Sunday in the annual London Sheep Drive, many wearing black hats and red cloaks. Lewis wore his grandfather’s wool coat and carried a crook as he led the throng herding the animals over Southwark Bridge.
“It was fabulous,” said Lewis, star of “Band of Brothers,” “Homeland” and “Wolf Hall.”
Lewis was asked to represent the Worshipful Company of Woolmen, a trade guild dating to the 12th century. He said he was pleased to be part of “this eccentric, very British day, honoring an old tradition.”
Manny Cohen, Master Woolman at the Worshipful Company of Woolmen, said the ancient sheep-driving tradition was revived about 15 years ago and has become a major charity fundraising event.
There are no plans to bring back other ancient freemen’s privileges such as the right to carry an unsheathed sword in public and to be escorted home if found drunk.
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