The Good Oil
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The Good Oil is a radio program on SEN 1116 in Melbourne, Australia.[1] It airs between noon-4 pm five days a week and is hosted by Mark Doran.[1] As an afternoon program, it seeks to provide fresh angles on the day's news stories.[1]
The Good Oil is so named as it provides information on a wide variety of news in the world of sport.
Host
[edit]Mark Doran is a journalist/commentator who has called the AFL Grand Final and has witnessed numerous Olympic Games. He was a former boundary rider on both channel 7 and Fox Footy. The show is currently produced by Kerry Lambert.
Regular guests
[edit]- Rodney Hogg: "Hoggy"
- Peter Brukner: Australian Athletics Selector and Olympic historian.
- Carlos Alberto Diego: A wrap-up of the world game news of the week.
- Sharelle McMahon: Melbourne Vixens and Australian team captain Sharelle McMahon
- Mark Robinson: One of the Herald Sun's journalists joins Mark to recap and discuss stories from the world of the AFL.
- Footballers Brad Green, Sam Mitchell, Brent Harvey and Scott Burns are footballers that join Mark for the Huddle on a Wednesday.
- Daniel Harford and "Rippa Rita" join Mark on Fridays between noon-2 for Casual Friday.
Notable segments
[edit]- On Thursday between 1-2 Mark is joined in the studio by a special guest on "Feature Thursday" where there is an hour interview regarding this sporting personalities life or a sports life. Some of the guest on Feature Thursday so far have been Jim Stynes, Heather McKay, Michael Long, Michelle Timms, One Day International Cricket, Sarah Fitz-Gerald and Drew Ginn, Peter Thomson, Michael Klim, Brett Hawke, Mark French, John Steffenson and Jana Pittman just to name a few.