[3] She trained as a fashion illustrator before moving to television; she was the interviewer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Tabloid from 1953 to 1956[1] and was, according to The Guardian, "the most famous woman in Canada" at that time.
[3] In 1956, she moved to England and joined ITV,[3] though she continued to work in Canadian television for a while, presenting Chrysler Festival (1957).
[3] She produced documentaries including Unmarried Mothers (1963) and in the 1970s and 1980s became one of the interviewers for Thames Television's Afternoon Plus (alongside Mavis Nicholson, Judith Chalmers and Mary Parkinson), a talk show which attracted a wide range of interviewees.
Broadcast during the daytime, it was initially targeted towards housewives, but, with unemployment growing, its editor Catherine Freeman turned it into a serious interview format.
[3] As The Guardian commented, Grand "brought the art of intelligent interviewing to a wide and growing audience ... [she] was one of a handful of broadcasters who changed the face of daytime television in Britain" through her interviews of politicians, thinkers, writers and other notable figures.