Larry Mantle (born 1957) is a radio show host in Southern California. He has been the host of AirTalk on KPCC since 1985, making him the longest-tenured current radio host in Southern California. AirTalk has served as KPCC's flagship program for most of its tenure, and Mantle has received several awards for his journalism. He was also the program director of KPCC in the 1990s, before it came under the umbrella of American Public Media. Mantle was one of the champions of the KPCC-APM merger.[1] He is from Southwest Los Angeles, and attended Vanguard University for college.