How computers wrote a new West End musical

The first computer generated musical is now in London's West End.

'Beyond the Fence' is the first musical conceived and generated by computer. The question is can these computer algorithms create something that can entertain humans?

Dan Damon reports for BBC Radio 4's World at One.

22 February 2016

4 minutes

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