Hello Culture - Nihilism Pt1.

Matthew Collings traces the roots of anger and despair which characterise punk music and the diatribes of rap back to the spirit of precocious 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud, a genius who gave up writing in his early twenties to seek oblivion as a trader in remote Ethiopia. Retracing his steps to Harar, Collings meets a former life prisoner who found redemption in the bleak plays of Samuel Beckett, while John Lydon recalls life on the road as Johnny Rotten with the Sex Pistols