080Her first name, Shanta, means ‘peace’ in Hindu. “My parents were hippies,” she said, being the second person to take part in SOTM to have said that.

Her parents were also politically-minded, and this trainee singer with operatic ambitions recalled her SOTM quote from a conversation with them about Nelson Mandela and Margaret Thatcher.

Taken at the student union building at Cardiff University in the UK.