Penny For Your Thoughts

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Penny For Your Thoughts episodes

April 16 Penny for Your Thoughts | 4-16-26
Brian Barnhart hosts a Penny open line, Kay Greene from C-U Ballet talks about The Little Mermaid coming to The Virginia Theater on May 1st and 2nd.
1 hr 3 min
April 15 Penny for Your Thoughts | 4-15-26
Brian Barnhart hosts Penny and previews, The Last Dance, the final Ebertfest with festival director Nate Kohn, actor Samantha Smart, co-writer and director Luke Boyce and Chaz Ebert. Maestro Ian Hobson joins Brian in the second hour to promote Sinfonia Da Camera: American Spring coming to Krannert Center on Saturday, April 18, 2026.
1 hr 25 min
April 14 Penny for Your Thoughts | 4-14-26
Brian Barnhart hosts Penny. En-Chi Lin and Amanda Ramey from CU Tango talk about this week’s CU Tango Music Festival. Jan Seeley joins Brian to talk about the Christie Clinic Illinois Race Weekend.
44 min
April 13 Penny for Your Thoughts 4-13-26
Brian Barnhart hosts a Penny open line and welcomes John Currey, music director at Central High School, to promote a fundraiser and the 57th Annual Central Jazz Festival. News-Gazette columnist Peggy Prichard joins Brian for open-line conversation in the second hour.
1 hr 27 min
April 10 Penny for Your Thoughts | 4-10-26
Brian Barnhart hosts Penny. Larry Fredrickson and John Peeler discuss the Whey Jennings benefit for veterans on April 11th. Sharla Jolly has an update on Coaches vs Cancer and Mike Haile discusses the end of CBS News and the start of Fox News on WDWS.
1 hr 26 min
April 09 Penny for Your Thoughts 4-9-26
Brian Barnhart hosts Penny with Dave Leake discussing the NASA Artimis II mission. Jim Dey from The News-Gazette joins Brian for an open line in the second hour.
1 hr 27 min
April 08 Penny for Your Thoughts | 4-8-26
Brian Barnhart hosts a Penny open line and Ginger Mills from the Cunningham Children’s Home talks about the Festival of Quilts on Friday and Saturday, April 10 and 11.
1 hr 25 min
April 07 Penny for Your Thoughts | 4-7-26
Brian Barnhart hosts a Penny open line and Sue and Tom Grey after Sue’s recent retirement as CEO of United Way of Champaign County.
1 hr 22 min
April 06 Penny for Your Thoughts 4-6-26
Brian Barnhart and Loren Tate host Monday Morning Quarterbacks after the Illinois loss to Uconn in the Final Four. Dr. Ed Hightower, a former NCAA basketball official, joins the conversation in hour two.
1 hr 38 min
April 03 Penny for Your Thoughts | 4-3-26
Brian Barnhart hosts Penny. Dr. Joe Thomas from the Urbana Theological Seminary discusses Good Friday and Easter. Tim Brando from Fox Sports looks at the Illini in the Final Four. Open line calls from Indianapolis around the Final Four.
1 hr 30 min

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A long-standing radio program unlike any other. Brian Barnhart hosts a two-hour program that gives the community a place to discuss about almost anything. Brian welcomes listener calls, texts and…