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What an absolute stinker! A heavy reliance on deletions and proper nouns, several dubious definitions, and the highest number of obscurities I've ever found in a single crossword.

Please can anyone help with these two?

36a: One way to make strong beer be distinctive (5,3)
I have ??A?D / ?U? It looks like STAND OUT (= be distinctive), and contains the letters of STOUT (= strong beer), but how does the rest of it work?

25d: Having more of these, you'll want more works on the radio (5)
I have N?E?? The final letter is the first letter of 36a, so if I'm right about STAND OUT it would be N?E?S. I can't even make sense of the clue, let alone attempt to find the answer!

STOUT can be made up of ST AND OUT

If you have more NEEDS you want more and it sounds like KNEADS

Thank you!

If the setter reads this, a kind hint.

In setting 3d, you completely alienate the younger solver. I am 56 and that song was written some 63 years before I was born and was apparently a pub piano favourite until I was about 5. Not surprising that I'd never heard of it. Please think about the under 70' s when you set.

My guess is “needs”; sounds like kneads, i.e. works (e.g. dough).
While we are at it, any help on 30dn, please: Eg set up cycling chart and get out of here (7)?

Apologies, have just read 2 of 5!

GERTCHA

“Eg” is set up and then “chart” is cycled as in its letters moving in a cycle

Many thanks, gertcha is a new one on me!

I just want to echo what Themadwoman and Anthonystmichel have said, a stinker full of dreadful obscurities. I’ve just cheated to get the final answers, words including syncope, enosis, carrick bend and cheongsam. Awful.

Just a hunch, but maybe it's been set by one of the Listener setters. Some of the clues, including the one referring to percentages, are a bit similar.