Ben Arthur is an Emmy-nominated songwriter, and the producer and host of SongWriter, a multimedia creative project that turns stories into songs. Featured guests include Questlove, Joyce Carol Oates, David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), George Saunders, Sharon Van Etten, Jamila Woods, and Isabella Rossellini.
The last three seasons of SongWriter have been supported by Templeton World Charity Foundation, and focus on elements of human flourishing like forgiveness, empathy, caregiving, and belonging. Episodes engaged with survivors of the Rwandan genocide, the complicated empathy in a new poem from Kaveh Akbar, and an original story from W. Kamau Bell about belonging and race in America.